Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time around we take a look at UFC 173 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada where T.J. Dillashaw pulled off the upset of Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao. Dillashaw upsets Barao Renan Barao was thought of as one of the best pound for pound […]
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Preliminary indications show that Mayweather-Maidana drew 800K-900K PPV buys
ESPN’s Dan Rafael indicated in a Sportsnation Chat with fans that the PPV buy rates from the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight sold between 800,000 to 900,000 PPVs. Golden Boy and Showtime have yet to make an official announcement. The news of the buy rate based on Rafael’s sources are disappointing considering it’s a Mayweather fight. […]
Pacquiao-Bradley II: 750K-800K PPV buys
ESPN reports the PPV rate for the rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley received between 750,000 and 800,000 buys. The estimated buy rate was a “disappointment” according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. The ESPN article noted that HBO did not produce a formal release but did confirm that the event generated $49 million […]
Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez Removed From Bellator Pay-Per-View
One week away from their PPV debut, Bellator announced today that Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez suffered an injury while training which will force him out of next week’s PPV main-event. Bellator Lightweight Champion Eddie Alvarez has suffered a head injury before his scheduled May 17th Lightweight Title fight with Michael Chandler and has been removed […]
UFC 171 and UFC 172 PPV Updates
Dave Meltzer, from MMAFighting.com, reports the latest estimated PPV numbers from the last two events, UFC 170: Hendricks vs Lawler and UFC 171: Jones vs Teixeira. According to Meltzer, UFC 171 drew an estimated 300K pay-per-view buys while UFC 172, which featured arguably UFC’s second biggest active star in Jon Jones, did an estimated 350,000 buys. Meltzer […]